Silviculture Analyst
Manulife
Remote Sensing
Operations Resource Management Technician
State of Florida
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Florida
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💰 $16 - $18 per hour
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Help select parks restore their native ecosystems through integrated vegetarian management, including chemical and mechanical invasive plant removal, prescribed fire and re-vegetation.
- Works to accomplish annual invasive plant management goals by correctly identifying and removing non-native plants that are identified by the FISC as Category I and II and those identified by CISMA local Early Detection, through mechanical and/or chemical means.
- May include other resource management activities including restoration and prescribed burning.
- Communicates and coordinates treatments with park team.
- Performs preventive and corrective maintenance on all equipment and assigned vehicles daily.
- Communicates equipment maintenance needs to management.
- Tracks daily progress on data sheets and enters into database, including accurate reporting of gross acreage covered, treated, treatment amount and type, hours, location, species, and species coverage.
Requirements
- Valid Driver’s license
- Ability to perform assigned field work despite excessive heat, cold, biting insects, and other adverse environmental conditions while walking across uneven terrain.
- Ability to differentiate between native plant species and invasive plant species.
- Ability to operate 4x4 trucks and ATV/UTVs in variable terrain.
- Ability to work as a team or independently.
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions; to read and follow a map.
- Ability to work in remote and isolated locations independently.
- Perform physical labor with minimal supervision; operate and maintain vehicles, tools, and equipment.
- Ability to work nights, weekends and Holidays and rotating shifts as needed.
- Ability to maintain a valid drivers' license.
- Familiarity with tools and equipment used in natural resource survey (e.g. GPS devices, Avenza maps and other survey applications) and invasive plant control, including hand, power/ gas tools, herbicide sprayers, all-wheel drive equipment, and tractors.
- Operating heavy equipment within its operational limits; strong trailering experience and skills with equipment maintenance and repair; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Knowledge: Florida natural communities, including both native and non-native plants; land management techniques used to control invasive species; basic equipment operation and safety; natural systems management; prescribed fire.
